Our client is a market leader in the building materials/construction industry and is looking a Design Engineering Manager. This person is responsible for proactively planning and organizing the day-to-day and long-term management of the company’s System Design and Application Engineering teams. Reporting to the Director of Operations, they will own all Engineering processes from sales forecast to post-commissioning and warranty. They will minimize Engineering risks by ensuring that company’s designs and methods meet all applicable standards, codes, and industry best practices. This is a MEP system / application engineering manager and not a product/manufacturing engineer. This individual's key target clients will be architects, landscape architects, and designers. They must be able to read and write architectural / construction drawings and understand AIA (North American) / RIBA (European & Middle Eastern) design processes.
Responsibilities:
· Leader of High Performing Engineering Teams with a Continuous Improvement culture
· Developing Strategies for highly reliable project designs
· Costing and Estimating consultancy projects
· Budgeting the MEP construction cost for the consultancy project
· Responsible for four directives:
o The information depth, quality, and accuracy of all information needed for a customer to realize their product design.
o Design Information Fulfillment – The information depth, quality, and accuracy of all “customer information that supports our designs.
o Engineering – Managing the production of risk-free, feature engineering that keeps our company's reputation safe and our customers out of trouble.
o Reviewing Process flow diagrams for mechanical and electrical design.
· Promptly and accurately respond to Customer and Prospect requests for information.
· Ensure that information is stored correctly and retrievable easily
· Project Management, Custom Components
· Attend meetings, respond to RFIs, and prepare drawings package submissions.
· Prepare project specifications.
· Prepare project schedule and resource planning.
· Design and engineering of custom and modified components and equipment
· Create Sustainable Competitive Advantages
· Strengthen our capabilities that match our customer values of “Product Performance,” “Effortless,” and “Expert.”
· Reduce the number of occurrences the company is in an auction.
· Build a set of activities that provides a unique mix of customer value.
· Outperform our rivals by establishing a difference we can preserve
· Deal with the tough decisions of “trade-offs” when the company’s activities are incompatible. Deal with incompatible behaviors and management systems. Limit what our company offers.
· Human Resources
o Grow our people's talent and group intelligence by being a terrific team member.
o Conform to company values for Health & Safety
o Conform to the laws of Ontario regarding workplace safety.
- Public Safety
o Safe designs that conform to industry best practices regarding sanitation, soft tissue damage, toe entrapment, and segregation of people from hazardous fountain elements.
o Keep company’s engineering quality up to date with the industry’s design standards and best practices
o Undertake any other assignments as reasonably issued by the Director of Operations
o Adhere to the “Code of Business Conduct & Ethics”
Requirements:
- 10+ years’ experience in application mechanical and electrical engineering in an MEP contractor environment. Consultancy experience is also welcomed.
- An undergraduate degree in Engineering or higher
- 5+ years of Engineering Leadership experience with multidisciplinary teams
- Strong Planning and Organizational skills
- Ability to develop key metrics for engineering and disciplined focus on maintaining KPI data
- Project management experience with construction or consultancy projects, PMI training, or certification as an asset
- Ability to lead and manage change within an organization
- Analytical skills appropriate for effective and proactive management of financial and operational metrics
- Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills
- Demonstrated leadership skills
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